seized from american citizens. it s being seized from telephone companies and they own the metadata, and there s a reasonable process in place. very different from judge leon s decision, which of course, was the exact opposite. jeffrey kyra, if i could add one point. yes. what s especially confusing in these two opinions is that judge leon said, the one in washington, that this collection program hasn t prevented any terrorist attacks. it hasn t done any good. judge polley here in new york says it has prevented terrorist attacks. it has been helpful. frankly, i m left puzzled. i don t know. we as americans, we haven t seen another attack, jeffrey, you know? it s kind of how we look at it, like, okay, we haven t been attacked on our soil since 9/11. there have been terrorist acts, the attempted christmas bombing in detroit. but thwarted. the shooting at the army
in october. that s 2009. it s down to 7% now. so is the justification gone for continuing to extend these jobless benefits? i don t think really anybody here will argue that the additional benefits are helpful to people. particularly the people who are receiving them. there s also this question of how you count this. one of the issues with unemployment rates these days is so many people have fallen out of the workforce who aren t being counted anymore. i m not sure 7% unemployment means the same thing today as 15 years ago when we were talking about much lower rates of insurance or of unemployment. the bottom line is, kyra, i don t think anybody here thinks the job situation is where it ought to be. everybody acknowledges that the people out there are suffering. the question is, how much money should the federal government pour into continuing this? obviously, some on the right say if you cut it off, it encourages people to finally take jobs, even if they pay less than they did bef
the u.s. justice department isn t playing around when it comes to this game. i m talking about a disturbing and sometimes deadly trend known as the knockout game. you re looking at an example of one of those incidents. typically, strangers randomly just sucker punch people on the street. they film it, and then they post the whole event online. the goal here to knock your victim unconscious with a single blow. now, that brings us to this man. conrad alvin barrett of texas. the first to be arrested over this knockout game. he s also been charged with a hate crime. and his unduing may have been what he said in a video of the attack that was posted online. cnn s margaret conley joining me. before we get to the video, what exactly is barrett accused of doing to his victim, exactly. kyra, knocking him out cold. there s a hearing happening right now in houston, texas. 27-year-old conrad barrett has been charged with a knockout
penalty. the attack knocked the city down, but it was far from defeated. i kind of feel like we re all boston. the whole country united with one resounding message. strong. not just strong. boston strong. our ashleigh banfield, thanks so much. you can vote on the top ten overall stories of 2013. go to cnn.com/yir for year in review. and good afternoon, everyone. i m kyra philfil phillips in fo baldwin. let s get into it. new this afternoon, target with a stunning turnaround. they say the personal information numbers or pins were in fact compromised along with credit and debit card information. when target stores were hacked earlier this month, we talked about this massive data breach with more than 40 million accounts affected. this has huge implications now for anyone who shopped at target using a debit card. for more now, we go to zain
really hard time with that. that he s scared and frightened. kyra. there s a lot involved here, right? the race issue, the fact that this is a federal case. all the details surrounding what happened and also this barrett guy. that s right, very complex, kyra. barrett is a 27-year-old caucasian male. the victim is a 79-year-old african-american male. race is on the table because according to the federal complaint, barrett attacked because of the man s race and color. there s also apparently video of the attack with barrett saying that the plan, quote, is to see if i were to hit a black person, would this be nationally televised? we have seen a lot of those so-called knockout cases in the last year. they have been reported in illinois, washington, and right here in new york. the justice department says there have been knockout incidents as far back as 1992, but this is the first time we re seeing a federal charge, at least in the latest string of knockouts and the defense is going to